Fiction

Thanks to Bookouture via NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Though I hadn't read the first to novels in this series, I had great hopes for this book based on the description and the positive reviews. Unfortunately, it didn't live up to my expectations. While the basic plot was intriguing - plotting the parents of two kidnapped girls against ...

Having never read Geraldine Brooks, and being rusty at best when it came to the story of David, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to really appreciate this book. Fortunately, the author did such a fantastic job of weaving in all of the relevant back stories and personal histories of the characters that I didn't feel I had to use so much of my brain that the book became less than pleasurable. (I ...

Thanks to Random House for providing me with a free ARC of this book.
This is a beautiful, poignant novel about a woman from a highly dysfunctional family. Lucy Barton is in the hospital recovering from complications after an appendectomy. Her mother, who she has not seen in years, flies in to sit at her bedside day and night for five days. As they discuss the unfortunate relationships of some of ...

Many thanks to HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Who couldn't love a book about a coal miner, his want-to-be-anything-other-than-a-coal-miner's-wife wife, her pet alligator, and a gratuitous rooster? Whimsical beginning with the Table of Contents, Carrying Albert Home is the story of how Elsie and Homer's marriage is ...

What can I say? This book was amazing. I really wanted to read this when it was first released but somehow didn't get around to it. I even wondered if it could live up to the hype. It did! I read the first several chapters wondering if things were going to come together and I would finally be able to understand what was going on. These numerous deaths did take a bit of getting used to. After that, ...

Thanks to Turner Publishing Company via Edelweiss for providing me with a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
When I learned that this book was told from the perspective of a baby that never drew breath but stayed by her mother's side to help tell her story, I was pretty intrigued. It's certainly a unique perspective and my initial reaction was that perhaps it might be ...

Thank you to Penguin Group Viking for providing me with a free ARC of this book.
Like Family is a beautifully written, complex but uncomplicated, story of a family and their beloved nanny. We understand from the outset that Mrs. A has died of cancer. The focus of this book is not a long, drawn-out account of her death, but rather the story of how her life has influenced the family she cared for. ...

Thanks to the Author, Brenda Novak, for providing me with a free copy of this book via NetGalley.
Okay, I admit that Investigation Discovery is my favorite TV channel. I love true crime books and great crime fiction. I had really, really high hopes for this book. Sadly, they didn't pan out. Reading previous reviews, I had come to expect some really heavy, psychologically thrilling content ...

I would like to thank Kensington Books via NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book.
Our heroine, Emma Malloy, finds herself orphaned after her parents die in a NYC fire. Her misanthropic Aunt Ida and Uncle Otis send her a train ticket so that she can move to their Coal River, PA home. She is haunted by the past as she arrives to the place where her younger brother drowned in the ...

I received a free copy of this book from Algonquin publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Summary: The Fall of Princes tells the tale of one man's rise and fall in the hedonistic world that was 1980's Wall Street. Money, power, greed, love, lust, sex, drugs, and alcohol provide the all of the interest once could hope for in Goolrick's latest novel. From the excess and ...